Pocahontas County, WV Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

4,840 ft 1,475 m4,120 ft 1,255 m3,760 ft 1,145 m3,040 ft 930 m2,320 ft 710 m1,960 ft 600 m

Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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How to use this mapviews, tools and data

Elevation: Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
Satellite: A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
3D: Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
Click or tap anywhere: The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
Measure: Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
County area: Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).

Elevation Data

Pocahontas County averages about 3,220 ft (980 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,960 ft on the southwest side to 4,842 ft on Bald Knob.

Average elevation

3,220 ft 980 m

all land inside the county

Highest

4,842 ft 1,476 m

on Bald Knob

Lowest

1,960 ft 600 m

on the southwest side

Pocahontas County spans about 2,880 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.

Figure	Elevation
Average of all land	3,220 ft980 m
Highest point Inside the county, on Bald Knob (NGS survey height)	4,842 ft1,476 m
Lowest point Inside the county, on the southwest side	1,960 ft600 m

Elevation profile, west to east

27 mi west to east through Marlinton.

Topographic Map

Location: County in West Virginia, United States
Population: 7,653 2024 est.
Land area: 940.2 sq mi + 1.6 sq mi water
Density: 8.1 per sq mi
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform regions: Valley and Ridge 60%, Appalachian Plateaus 40%
Drains to: Gulf of America

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average

Pocahontas County3,220 ft
Randolph County2,960 ft
Highland County, VA2,860 ft
Greenbrier County2,630 ft
Pendleton County2,590 ft
Webster County2,440 ft
Bath County, VA2,220 ft

Rankings by average elevation

Counties in West Virginiahighest of 55
Counties in the United States346th highest of 3,151

Peaks and hills highest inside

Bald Knob4,842 ft
Red Lick Mountain4,680 ft
Black Mountain4,590 ft
Briery Knob4,524 ft
High Top3,640 ft

All 9 towns in Pocahontas County by typical elevation

Durbin2,780 ft
Bartow2,770 ft
Frank2,740 ft
Arbovale2,730 ft
Green Bank2,670 ft
Cass2,590 ft
Huntersville2,430 ft
Hillsboro2,300 ft
Marlinton2,140 ft

How we measure

Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
Highest ground: the single highest 3DEP cell, 4,850 ft at 38.3949° N, 79.9921° W, has no federal (GNIS) summit name within 980 ft (300 m), so the high point shown is the highest of the 25 highest cells with a GNIS summit within 1,640 ft (500 m).
Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.